Improvement in fences



A. E. BALLIET.

FENCE. No.178.583. Patented June 13, 1876.

WITNESSES NTGB mamas.

-PETERS, PHOTO-UTNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFIca AMBROSE E. BALLIET, OF LIMESTONEVILLE,PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT lN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,583, dated June 13,1876; application filed April 4, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I. AMBROSE E. BALLIET, ofLimestoneville, in the county of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in FarmTence, of which thefollowing is a specification:

Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of my improved fence. Fig. 2 is atop view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved fence, whichshall be so constructed that it may be easily set up and takendown, andmoved from place to place, making it very convenient for farmers, whomay wish to pasture a field or part a time, and for various otherpurposes.

The invention consists in an improved fence,

formed of the horizontal boards, halved at their ends, the cross-barsand pins arranged, in connection with each other, as hereinafter fullydescribed.

A are the horizontal boards of the panels, which are connected to eachother by the cross-bars B O D. The cross-barB is attached to the boardsA at a little distance from one end; the cross-bar C is attached to oneside of their other ends; and the cross-bar D is attached to the otherside of the said ends from the cross-bar (J, and at a greater or lessdistance from the ends, according as less or more inclination or worm isto be given to the panels. The ends of the boards A are halved upontheir edges at both ends, so that the adjacent ends of the panels mayinterlock, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, Where they are secured in place bypins E, which pass through holes in the ends of the boards A of the onepanel across the outer side of the cross-bar D, attached to the ends ofthe boards A of the other panel. The ends of the boards A of one panelare halved upon their upper edges, and the ends of the boards A of thenext panel are halved upon their lower edges, and so on alternately.

One board of each panel is halved upon the opposite edge from the othersto prevent the panels from being raised by the wind.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent v An improved fence, formed of the horizontal boardsA, shouldered at their ends, the cross-bars B O D, and the pins E,arranged in connection with each other, substantially as herein shownand described.

AMBROSE E. BALLIET. Witnesses:

H. RUssEL KARGHNER, JOHN T. BALLIET.

